FLOURTOWN — About 90 seconds after watching his team completely shut down Boyertown during a 62-24 rout in Saturday’s District 1-AAAA girls basketball quarterfinal, Mount Saint Joseph Academy head coach John Miller was standing at midcourt, looking for someone to find a game ball for Kaitlyn Eisenhard’s mother.

It was a classy gesture from the Magic head coach, and a memorable moment for Eisenhard and her family.

But with more work to do this season, the Bears are hoping to forget everything else about Saturday.

“This wasn’t just a loss, it was a embarrassing for us,” said Eisenhard, who scored just six points, but became the all-time leading scorer in school history with 1,374 points, one more than Wanda Moyer. “But if we can rebound and have a great game on Wednesday, that could really get us going for states. If we get a good seed in states we can make a deep run I think.”

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Eisenhard was the main focus of the Magic defense, as the Mount’s top task was not only to double-team the Boyertown star, but deny her the ball on each and every possession.

It worked even better than Miller could have imagined.

“I remember Eisenhard as a sophomore and I remember what a terrific player she is,” said Miller, whose team will face No. 3 Upper Dublin in Wednesday’s semifinal at Norristown. “When I got a hold of their stats you don’t have to be a brain surgeon to see: Eisenhard 22 points, 24 points, 25 points, one game she had 33. And Boyertown wins. Then there’s a few games where she has 12 points, 11 points, 13 points, and Boyertown loses. We wanted to make her work to catch the ball. We wanted to deny her and we wanted to make her work the entire time. On offense we would outlet the ball and push the ball down the floor to force her to run and we just really tried to tire her out.”

The seventh-seeded Bears, who will play at No. 6 North Penn Wednesday night in the playback game for state seeding, were overwhelmed from the opening tip, as the Magic’s full-court press and diamond-and-one defense on Eisenhard left Boyertown scrambling. With Eisenhard double- and sometimes triple-teamed in the low post, the Mount was daring the rest of the Bears to hit outside shots.

“This is the first team that ever denied me the ball really hard all season,” Eisenhard said. “We just weren’t hitting shots. We were taking good shots, they just weren’t falling.”

Dee Terry led the Bears with seven points, but was 2-for-8 from the floor and 1-for-6 from the free throw line. Eisenhard was 2-for-7 from the floor, while Kaitlyn DeHaven was 1-for-5. In all, the Bears shot 18 percent from the floor and were 5-for-16 from the free throw line.

That was never going to get it done against a Magic team that shot an absurd 61 percent from the floor (72 percent inside the arc) and made 14 of 20 free throws.

“For most of the game, they were playing a diamond-and-one on Eisenhard and we had some open looks that didn’t go down for us,” said Boyertown head coach Jason Bieber. “But more importantly we didn’t make foul shots and we didn’t rebound. In the first half they had 10 or 12 points on second and third opportunities and that was one of the things we talked about was making sure that didn’t happen.”

Mount guard Alex Louin was the biggest reason for those frustrating second chances. Louin, who led the Magic with 17 points, also pulled down 11 rebounds (five offensive) to go with two blocks and four steals. Adrienne Cellucci added 16 for the Magic, missing just twice from the floor, while Meg Geatens controlled the paint on her way to 12 points and 10 rebounds.

“I told the girls I thought our best game of the season was 10 days ago when we beat Villa Maria for the academy league championship,” Miller said. “I said, ‘Girls you made a liar out of me, because today was our best game of the season.’ I just said why don’t you make a liar out of me again on Wednesday.”

Wednesday is also when the Bears will have to rebound if they want to get back on track.

The game against North Penn is merely for seeding, as is the one that follows next weekend against C.B. West or Pennsbury. Boyertown is already in the state bracket, and can finish as high as the fifth seed or as low as eighth.

“North Penn last year made it to the district championship game, so it’s going to be a tough matchup,” Bieber said. “But we had a tough schedule all year — the second-toughest schedule in District 1 — so we’ll be ready to go.

“A couple years ago we made a run to the state semifinals after we lost in this round,” Bieber said. “So it’s possible, but it doesn’t get any easier on Wednesday.”

As for Eisenhard, who broke the mark with a layup in the fourth quarter, the “embarrassing” result made it tough for her to enjoy her place in the Boyertown record books.

Fifteen minutes after the game, she was posing for photos with her family and her newly acquired game ball. Once the flash went off, the smile disappeared as she casually tossed the ball to a family member on her way to the bus.

The result was all that mattered — at least while the pain was still fresh.

“I’d much rather have taken a win over getting it, but it’s good to get it. I’ve been working hard for it,” said Eisenhard, who now sits 17th on The Mercury’s all-time scoring list. “It’s exciting but I just wish we had been winning the game.”

NOTES

Eisenhard’s six-point showing was her lowest output in nearly two years. As a sophomore, Eisenhard scored just four points in a 42-21 win in the 2011 PIAA quarterfinals — against Mount Saint Joseph. ... Miller and the game officials discussed Eisenhard’s potential milestone before the game, telling the scorer’s table to buzz when she reached six points. The game was briefly interrupted and both sets of fans gave Eisenhard a standing ovation after her fourth-quarter layup. ... The Bears will either face a team from District 3 or District 11 in their state opener. A win Wednesday over North Penn would mean a first-round date with either the District 3 third-place finisher or District 11 runner-up. A loss and the Bears would face the District 3 runner-up or the District 11 champion.